Freeze in 13.37

arubin · 05-01-2011, 07:03 AM

I have 13.37 installed and am thinking of changing to it but I have had two system freezes with it. This never happens on 13.0. Once was when I was selecting reboot from kde and another time I was closing another program - I forget which.

I have this in kdm log and xorg.log

Quote:

[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a02d8]
1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x1f4) [0x49f7f4]
2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventP+0xc4) [0x47c724]
3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7fe556cd9000+0x48aa) [0x7fe556cdd8aa]
4: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x6a567) [0x46a567]
5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x117ce3) [0x517ce3]
6: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7fe55a416000+0x340b0) [0x7fe55a44a0b0]
7: /lib64/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x7) [0x7fe55a4f2d47]
8: /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x28) [0x7fe55933f288]
9: /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2 (drmCommandWrite+0x1b) [0x7fe5593415bb]
10: /usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (0x7fe558cfe000+0x2f3d) [0x7fe558d00f3d]
11: /usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (nouveau_bo_map_range+0xfe) [0x7fe558d0155e]
12: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0x7fe558f03000+0x6fb7) [0x7fe558f09fb7]
13: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x7fe55848e000+0xc293) [0x7fe55849a293]
14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x154e48) [0x554e48]
15: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (exaGetPixmapFirstPixel+0x71) [0x7fe5584a2a51]
16: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x7fe55848e000+0x10981) [0x7fe55849e981]
17: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xd61f3) [0x4d61f3]
18: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xcef19) [0x4cef19]
19: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2def1) [0x42def1]
20: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x21ffe) [0x421ffe]
21: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe55a434e5d]
22: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x21bb9) [0x421bb9]

Could this be a nouveau problem? Should I try the nvidia driver?

disturbed1 · 05-01-2011, 07:19 AM

Not enough details, but could be related to a common KDM bug that happens at log out.
Edit /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and un-comment TerminateServer=true.

This makes KDM actually restart the X server, rather than respawn/reset. Works around various bugs in Xorg, and some display drivers. Happens to me personally with Intel graphics.

arubin · 05-01-2011, 08:41 AM

I am working on the assumption that nouveau is to blame and have now installed the nvidia driver

darksaurian · 05-01-2011, 01:39 PM

It froze on me once while using google maps. All that worked was the cursor. I couldn't ctrl-alt-esc or ctrl-c or anything.

I hit the reset button before I remembered to try ctrl-alt-F2 or whatever closes X or changes the runlevel or whatever. I'll probably installing the nvidia driver anyway. I have no idea what caused the crash though. I've never seen that happen before.

Ilgar · 05-01-2011, 05:04 PM

I'm using a custom compiled 2.6.37.6, so I don't know about the generic kernel but I've been experiencing random freezes since 2.6.36 (this is an eeePC 1005HA). In my case I'm almost sure it's not about external software because all is fine if I boot with the 2.6.35 kernel. Still, I've had just one freeze with 2.6.37.6 which makes it the best so far. I tried to find clues in the logs about what goes wrong but I was unable to find any.

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-02-2011, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arubin

I am working on the assumption that nouveau is to blame and have now installed the nvidia driver

It's possible, looking at the error output.

jordanGSU · 05-02-2011, 06:00 AM

same issue multiple times over the weekend, locked where mouse can move, but nothing responds. Unable to kill X or tab out. This happened before and after I enabled the nouveau driver. Just havent had time to debug it yet.

eraosso · 05-04-2011, 11:36 AM

I have had the same problem a couple of times since installing (from scratch) 13.37. Very annoying!

colorpurple21859 · 05-04-2011, 12:06 PM

Try using the 2.6.38 kernel from testing if you want to use the nouveau driver. Several issues with the nouveau driver was fixed in the 2.6.38 kernel.

marnold · 05-04-2011, 07:57 PM

I unwittingly was using nouveau for a while. It locked up my box twice. Once I got the binary NVIDIA driver running it's been rock solid as always. The version of nouveau with this kernel is not ready for prime time.

jostber · 05-05-2011, 01:50 PM

Have you run "xorgsetup" after upgrading to 13.37 to get the nouveau driver working?

darksaurian · 05-06-2011, 07:33 PM

How are you guys installing the nvidia driver anyway? It won't let me just run the script like I used to. It says nouveau is in the way or something.

fancylad · 05-06-2011, 07:38 PM

I had the same problems with nouveau. I used the nvidia driver from slackbuilds.org. The nvidia installer blacklisted the nouveau module for me automatically:

Quote:

matt@amd:~$cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf
# generated by nvidia-installer
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

darksaurian · 05-06-2011, 08:41 PM

What's the difference in performance? If I'm not locking up is it worth it to switch to nvidia?

lumak · 05-07-2011, 01:00 AM

The Nvidia drivers are always going to perform better. And if at some point they don't, nvidia should just stop making their drivers.

Nouveau is going to be good enough if you don't want anything fancy and are ok with 2D hardware accelerated graphics. I was fine with nouveau until I tried gnome 3 and the interface didn't display properly.